High Five

Scheduled for (UTC) 2025-03-18 01:31
Scheduled for (NZDT) 2025-03-18 14:31
Launch site Rocket Lab LC-1A, Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand
Booster recovery No
Launch vehicle Electron + Curie
Customer Kinéis
Payload Kinéis Mission V
Target orbit LEO

Livestreams

Stream Link
Rocket Lab (official) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-31hJeW1ec
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CC5_hmqH44
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJa0ak2i6fE

Stats

  • 4th launch for Rocket Lab this year.
  • 62nd overall launch for Rocket Lab.

Payload info:

Rocket Lab mission page

NextSpaceflight:

Kinéis Mission V

Fifth and final batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 28 kg each. The constellation will enable Kinéis, a company backed by private and public investors including the French government’s space agency CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales) and CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) an international space-based solutions provider, to improve its global IoT connectivity.

Previous mission: The Lightning God Reigns

Next mission: Finding Hot Wildfires Near You

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